Some further developments in the "bottled water debate"...
Market Watch - October 16, 2008
Dr. Stephen Edberg, a microbiology professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, and the director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, has strongly refuted the Environmental Working Group's study on bottled water quality, declaring that the study's methodology was flawed and lacking in sound science.
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Yale Scientist Refutes Study on Bottled Water Issued By Environmental Working Group - MarketWatch
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Addressing the study's findings which were released yesterday, Dr. Edberg said, "The Environmental Working Group's study on bottled water is troubling for both its lack of acknowledgement of scientifically based history and for failing to conduct controlled scientific experiments. Its conclusions unduly confuse consumers through faulty methodologies and unsubstantiated findings."
Dr. Edberg highlights two egregious examples, among the study's many flawed conclusions: Heterotropic Plate Count (HPC) as a measure of overall bacterial contamination: "HPC is a naturally occurring bacteria. In 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency considered using an HPC in its new total coliform rule. It found no association between these naturally occurring bacteria and human health. While in 2002, the World Health Organization concluded that HPC were natural and did not result in an adverse health effect."
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